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Devoxx 2011 – The Groovy Ecosystem

by Roger Goossens on December 14, 2011 · 0 comments

My last talk at Devoxx was the one that perhaps i enjoyed the most and one that I was really impressed by. A lot of neat products based on Groovy were discussed in this talk. They had a lot in common. Besides all being based on Groovy, they also have a very simple installation procedure [...]

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Running Weblogic 12c as it is meant to be: in the Cloud

by Laurens van der Starre on December 10, 2011 · 3 comments

How to run Weblogic 12c in the cloud, directly on Oracle VM’s hypervisor.

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SSL handshake can be picky about the used JVM

December 10, 2011

If you are faced with SSL handshake errors and you simply can’t explain them because everything seems right: check your JAVA_HOME to see which version you are running. Keep away from SUN 1.6.0_21 – SUN 1.6.0_28, and upgrade if necessary. These versions seems to be flawed.

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Devoxx 2011 – Introduction to Apache ActiveMQ, ServiceMix, Camel and CXF

November 27, 2011

The first talk of day 2 I attended, was about integration. Integration frameworks comes into play when you have to integrate between different technologies (JDBC, HTTP, JMS) or different message formats (XML, EDI, CSV, etc.). Charles Moulliard presented this session in which he discussed a bundle of Apache licensed products used to enable integration: Apache [...]

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Devoxx 2011 – Spring Into The Cloud

November 24, 2011

The second talk of day 1 I attended, was a mix of NoSQL and Cloud Computing. And more to the point, how to integrate these technologies into Spring Enterprise Applications. The NoSQL part focussed on two popular NoSQL databases, Redis and MongoDB and was done by Chris Richardson, while the cloud part focussed on vmware’s [...]

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Devoxx 2011 – Building Next-generation Enterprise Applications in Java a.k.a. Duke’s Duct Tape Adventures

November 20, 2011

Devoxx 2011 kicks off with a very impressive demo-based talk on jee6. In a time span of approx. 4 hrs Paul Bakker and Bert Ertman hack together a small enterprise CRUD application showing a lot of the new features present in jee6. And foremost demonstrating how easy it is to quickly set up such an [...]

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Smarter APEX: using collections

November 18, 2011

When I recently created an APEX application, I was confronted with a requirement that I couldn’t directly solve. But then colleague Maarten van Luijtelaar showed me the right direction: APEX Collections! The requirement was in short this; a copier holds one or more meters to count how many copies have been printed in color, black&white, [...]

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When to add plan-driven components to agile projects?

November 17, 2011

In this blog post we will answer when agile software project management methods should be completed with plan-driven components to result in a better software project outcome. To find the answer we turned to the master thesis of Sjors de Koning. Sjors has performed the research for his master thesis at Whitehorses. This qualitative research he performed is based on a careful study of four cases.

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Results Oracle Forms Survey

October 1, 2011

After reading about the results of a German survey on Forms usage, we decided to test if the results would be similar outside the German marketplace. We published our own Forms Users Survey and received 131 replies. The results are mostly in line with the findings in Germany. We do see some interesting outcomes. Forms [...]

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Running Oracle Coherence on jRockit Virtual Edition

September 19, 2011

A while ago the Oracle WebLogic Virtual Edition was announced. This WebLogic server runs on jRockit Virtual Edition (VE), which is a Java VM that runs directly on the hypervisor. The idea is that an OS is not necessary any more, giving the jRockit VE a speculated overhead of only 2MB of RAM. This blog post shows running Oracle Coherence on jRockit VE.

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